Assignment
Assignment #5
Completion requirements
Opened: Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 10:25 PM
Due: Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:25 PM
Assignment #5 - Use MAZEA to Examine your Abstract and BRAT to Annotate
For this assignment, you will use your abstract that ou already wrote. Your assignment should include
- The title
- The area of expertise or department, e.g., Molecular Biology
- Your ORIGINAL abstract
- Your abstract with your own annotations for the different components
- The abstract with the annotations generated by MAZEA
Using MAZEA
MAZEA is a tool for identification of the components of an abstract. It only uses 6 of them: Background, Gap, Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusion.
- Edit your abstract by removing all the markers you wrote. Make sure you have the original text only
- Save a copy of the text in your assignment file.
- Submit your original text (without any component markers) to MAZEA.
- Make sure you select one of the two areas (Life Sciences vs. Physical and Engineering)
- Copy the results that MAZEA gives you to your assignment file.
- Compare your own annotations with those of MAZEA. Did you find any difference? Do you agree with the results? Would you change anything in your original annotations?
Using BRAT
BRAT is a tool for automatica annotation of text.
- View the tutorial on BRAT Tutorial
- Edit your abstract by removing all the markers you wrote. Make sure you have the original text only
- Use BRAT to annotate your abstract
- Save a copy of the text in your assignment file.
- Save your results using BRAT.
- Compare your own annotations with those of BRAT.
- Complete the survey BRAT survey
What to submit?
Your assignment must be submitted as a text file.
- Name the file as follows: "assignment_5_yourfirstname.txt" (or ".rtf", or ".doc"/".docx" if you use Word), where yourfirstname is indeed your first name.
- Write the title of the assignment in your file, include your name and date.
- ALL your work:
- The title
- The area of expertise or department, e.g., Computer Science
- Your ORIGINAL abstract
- Your abstract with your own annotations for the different components
- The abstract with the annotations generated by MAZEA
- The abstract with the annotations generated with BRAT